New Hobbie

For my birthday, along with the cruise, Wyatt bought me cake decorating classes. I took fondant and gum paste decorating in October. There were 4 classes throughout the month. It was challenging, but so fun! I learned how to do some awesome things like making roses, daisies, bows, carnations, and several different flowers and other things to make a beautiful cake. Here is my first finished product:

All of the decoration is entirely out of fondant and gum paste icing.  Even the flowers. Now keep in mind that this is the first cake I have done in Fondant so it isn't perfect. I made this cake for my mom's birthday. I want to continue to develop my skill so I can make cute cakes for my kids!

And Then There Were Three...

So the end of my last post brings me to a new topic...yes to all wondering...we are expecting a baby boy on March 13, 2011. So that puts us at 23 1/2 weeks. Wow..it's still hard to believe we are going to be parents. And to a little boy! I am so excited! He's going to be so cute, just like his daddy! We haven't decided on a name yet, but we have a few ideas.

Here he is! Baby Boy Nielsen

So any advice or tips on raising a little boy would be greatly appreciated. Since I only have little sisters I only know about girls. This will be a change for me being surrounded by boys. But they will be my boys and I couldn't be more excited. I have secretly always wanted to have a boy first because I had a big brother and I loved it! 

We are in the middle of fixing up the nursery so as soon as it is finished I will post some pictures! 

The August Vacation

So just because we went on a cruise in August does not mean that because it is November it is too late to post about it! We went on a much needed vacation in August for my birthday. It was kind of like a second honeymoon (even though we have only been married for a year and a half)

We went on a 7 day cruise to the Caribbean. We stopped in Belize, Honduras, and had two stops in Mexico. It was so beautiful! And so hot. 

In both of our Mexico stops we went to different Mayan ruins, because I can't get me enough of those! As I was looking at which pictures I wanted to post I realized that most of our pictures were of ruins...so I won't post very many as to bored the reader, but there are a few very interesting ones. One of the ruins had a large pyramid with masks on the front. They have been really well preserved and we could still see some of the stucco. 

The masks went up each side of the front staircase.

Here is a close up. You can still see some of the red 

coloring.

In Belize we went Cave Tubing. Basically we floated down a lazy river through extremely long cave. Apparently the Mayans used these caves back in the day. The water was cold, but it felt so good. And was really neat. The pictures a poor quality because we used a cheap underwater camera so we could document the moment!

Exiting one of the caves.

Honduras was probably my favorite day. We went to the beach. The most beautiful beach I have ever seen! It looked like it belonged on a postcard. White sand, clear blue water, palm trees, it was so relaxing.

Wyatt also rented snorkeling gear and swam among the fishes. 

Now the only scary thing about Honduras was pulling into Port. Here is what we saw...

And this wasn't the only ship wreck! Made me a little nervous, but we deciding there must have been a hurricane or something...right?

What a great vacation! Here are some random pics

We had a blast! And the best part was there was so much food! And being 12 weeks pregnant at the time, that is exactly what I needed!